Chart Downloader[1461] (Plugin Included in Program download)
Download, install and keep up to date the navigational charts provided by various free governmental sources worldwide directly from within OpenCPN's Toolbox. Supports both the raster and vector charts for the US waters provided by the NOAA, official raster navigational charts published by Argentina, Brasil and New Zealand (covering also huge areas of the Pacific ocean) as well as electronic charts of the inland waterways of the USA and more than a dozen European Union countries.
S63 Vector Charts[1462] (O Charts)
A plugin that makes it possible to display standard commercial charts.
This plugin has a totally different display format and is integrated in the main program.
See O-Charts[1463] S-63 Vector charts for OpenCPN which has a link to VAR Chartworld for ENC charts.[1464]
oeSENC Charts[1465] (O Charts)
A Plugin for Vector charts licensed from official bodies for OpenCPN, especially for users in Europe, but noot limited to. This is an encrypted format with its own plug-in, the oeSENC plug-in. Special and exclusive for OCPN Derived from S-57, but already in an easy to digest format for OCPN (ocpn encrypted SENC). These charts are distributed through O-Charts[1466] at very competitive prices for vector charts of this quality. Germany, Belgium, the Netherlands, the British Isles, France, Iceland, Norway, Sweden, Crotia are available. Other destinations like Italy, Denmark or Australia will follow.
Fugawi Charts[1467]
Fugawi.com[1468] is a portal offering raster charts from different editors in a common uniform format.
Chart sets from sources like for example NV, Delius-Klasing, Solteknik, BlueLatitude or Explorer Charts and others are found here under one roof.
The FugawiChart-PlugIn gives access to these charts.
NV Charts[1469]
The NVC charts are purchased only from the German publisher NV Verlag This plugin runs NVC Charts[1470].
BSB4 Charts[1471]
A plugin which makes it possible to use MAPTEC encrypted BSB4 charts for which encryption certificates have been purchased and registered on the computer running OpenCPN.
vfKaps -VentureFather Satellite Kap Charts[1472]
A plugin which makes it easy to create google earth, bing and nokia kap files. In some areas of the world a satellite chart is more accurate than even the official chart. This plugin allows satellite charts from Google, Bing or Nokia to be downloaded via the VentureFarther server.
RotationCtrl[1473]
Controls to rotate the charts in various ways. North up, South up, Course up, Heading up, Route up, Wind up, Tilt down, Tilt up. Rotate CCW, Rotate CW.
Chartscale[1474]
Slider to change the chartscale. Useful utility.
Object Search[1475]
Allows search of named objects on S-57 and CM93 vector charts.
Projections[1476]
Utility to project the charts in many alternative projections configured by the user. Right-click shows “Projections” with user selection for Mercator, Orthographic, Polar, Stereographic, Genomonic, ane Equirectangular. These projections may be useful for a more accurate interpretation of navigational data. Mercator is especially skewed at high lattitudes. Requires opengl.